The IRS will soon open the 2026 tax season. Here's how to save a few bucks by filing your income taxes for free.

Here’s when the IRS is expected to start accepting 2025 tax returns, plus how to track your refund and avoid delays.

In 2025, nearly 300,000 Americans used a new electronic system to file their taxes directly with the IRS for free. In 2026, ...

President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which he signed into law in July, includes provisions that could impact many ...

Over 250,000 Americans filed their taxes for free with the Internal Revenue Service last year, using the IRS Direct File ...

The IRS expects more than 140 million individual tax returns for tax year 2024 to be filed ahead of the federal deadline. Taxpayers residing in a federally declared disaster area may have additional ...

The IRS Direct File tool won't be available for the upcoming tax filing season. Here are a few free resources if you want help filing your taxes.

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April 15 is tax day, which means the dumbest tax you'll likely pay this week is the one you pay to a software company in order to file your taxes. Over the past several decades, tax preparation ...

Need more time to file your taxes? Here's what to do and what you'll owe. Credit: JJ Gouin / iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Taxpayers are preparing for the annual filing deadline, and ...